FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Attributing Ceratocorys, Pentaplacodinium and Protoceratium to Protoceratiaceae (Dinophyceae), with descriptions of Ceratocorys malayensis sp. nov . and Pentaplacodinium usupianum sp. nov BT AF Luo, Zhaohe Lim, Zhen Fei Mertens, Kenneth Krock, Bernd Teng, Sing Tung Tan, Toh Hii Leaw, Chui Pin Lim, Po Teen Gu, Haifeng AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;4:4;5:5;6:2;7:2;8:2;9:1; FF 1:;2:;3:PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERBO;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:; C1 Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen 361005, China Bachok Marine Research Station, Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Malaya, Bachok 16310, Malaysia Ifremer, LER BO, Station de Biologie Marine, Place de la Croix, BP40537, Concarneau CEDEX F-29185, France Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Ecological Chemistry, Am Handelshafen 12, Bremerhaven D-27570, Germany Faculty of Resource Science and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan 94300, Malaysia C2 SIO, CHINA UNIV MALAYA, MALAYSIA IFREMER, FRANCE INST A WEGENER, GERMANY UNIV MALAYSIA, MALAYSIA SI CONCARNEAU SE PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERBO IN WOS Ifremer UPR copubli-europe copubli-int-hors-europe copubli-sud IF 2.857 TC 8 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00589/70143/68109.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;Ceratocoryaceae;Gonyaulacaceae;Molecular phylogeny;Protoceratium reticulatum;Yessotoxin AB The gonyaulacean family Protoceratiaceae is characterised by five precingular plates. It currently encompasses the type genus Ceratocorys and the fossil genus Atopodinium. Fourteen strains of Ceratocorys, Pentaplacodinium, and Protoceratium were established from Malaysian and Hawaiian waters, and their morphologies were examined using light and scanning electron microscopy. Two new species, Ceratocorys malayensis sp. nov. and Pentaplacodinium usupianum sp. nov., were described from Malaysian waters. They share a Kofoidean plate formula of Po, Pt, 3ʹ, 1a, 6ʹʹ, 6C, 6S, 5ʹʹʹ, 1p, 1ʹʹʹʹ. Ceratocorys malayensis has a short first apical plate (1ʹ) with no direct contact with the anterior sulcal plate (Sa) whereas Pentaplacodinium usupianum had a parallelogram-shaped 1ʹ plate which often contacted the Sa plate. The genera Ceratocorys and Pentaplacodinium were emended accordingly to incorporate species bearing five or six precingular plates. The Protoceratium strain from Hawaii was morphologically similar to P. reticulatum, but differed in the lack of a ventral pore in plate 1′ and slight or lack of contact between plates 1′ and Sa, and is here designated as P. cf. reticulatum. The maximum-likelihood and Bayesian inference analyses based on SSU, LSU and ITS ribosomal DNA sequences revealed that these three genera are monophyletic and form a well-resolved group. Our results support Protoceratium and Pentaplacodinium as members of the family Protoceratiaceae, characterised by the presence of one anterior intercalary plate. Seven strains of Protoceratium cf. reticulatum, Ceratocorys malayensis and Pentaplacodinium usupianum were examined for yessotoxin production by LC-MS/MS but none produced a detectable amount of toxin. PY 2020 PD JAN SO Phycologia SN 0031-8884 PU Informa UK Limited VL 59 IS 1 UT 000491020400001 BP 6 EP 23 DI 10.1080/00318884.2019.1663693 ID 70143 ER EF